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ArtsWeek 2025 Approaches

Every May, Northwest Academy holds ArtsWeek, a celebration of students’ art.

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Since its founding in 1997, Northwest Academy has grown...

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"Every time I feel the ball in my hands, I know that it’s mine and no one is going to f***ing take it from me.”

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ArtsWeek 2025 Approaches

Every May, Northwest Academy holds ArtsWeek, a celebration of students’ art.

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Northwest Academy will soon fall under Clean & Safe's jurisdiction, but just how clean and safe will we be?

How to Get Involved: Protecting Reproductive Rights

Staying informed is a crucial way to support those around us, especially amidst a political climate that seeks to take away our information and access to fundamental rights.

French Students Visit NWA

“It’s a funny city with a lot of people who have colored hair."

Track By Track: Slint: Spiderland

Slint’s Spiderland is a moody, entrancing post-punk work of art.

The Fred Meyer Parking Lot

I followed my mantra: suffer now, pleasure later.

Commentary: Nothing Breezy About This Investment

The idea doesn’t seem to be sparking excitement among students.

“I Am Not Eating That Cursed Jambalaya”

I realized I can celebrate my problems. I can experience magical moments with the people I love. That is what keeps me going.

ArtsWeek 2025 Approaches

Every May, Northwest Academy holds ArtsWeek, a celebration of students’ art.

Clean & Safe: The Good, the Bad and the Dirty

Northwest Academy will soon fall under Clean & Safe's jurisdiction, but just how clean and safe will we be?

How to Get Involved: Protecting Reproductive Rights

Staying informed is a crucial way to support those around us, especially amidst a political climate that seeks to take away our information and access to fundamental rights.

French Students Visit NWA

“It’s a funny city with a lot of people who have colored hair."

Commentary: Four-Day Schedules Cause Confusion and Inconsistency

The class duration and order inconsistencies are illogical and stray from the normal schedule so much that they cause stress and confusion for some students and staff on where they are supposed to be at any given time. 

Commentary: Teachers! Effort Over Excellence, Please

"Engagement and effort are an underused way to evaluate students."

Commentary: Keep Commerce Out of Art

Capitalism warps the incentive of producing art from something pure into making money.

Commentary: Heavy Metal Gatekeepers Can Take a Hike

Gatekeepers want to preserve the authenticity and exclusivity of a community by keeping people out who they think might pollute it or make it mainstream.

Commentary: Unleashing American Energy, Unleashing Chaos

By favoring the fossil fuel industry at the expense of the environment, public health and long-term economic growth, this order represents everything wrong with our current approach to energy policy. 

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Interview: Ben Moon

"Surviving cancer in my twenties helped me recognize that our greatest accomplishments in life are the relationships we build and the connections we feel with others."

Procrastination Interrupted

"I have always been a procrastinator. Always, always, always. The quarantine’s changed many things, but not that."

Exile On Main Street: An Unlikely Success

Exile on Main Street is an incredible jam of an album that feels like it starts before the first song begins and carries on long after the last song ends.

Art

The Art You Love

"How do others relate to our art?"

Void Of Course

“Void of Course” draws its name from an astrological term that describes a period when the Moon is not making any major aspects before it transitions into the next sign.

Summer Smoke Trailer

"The project of Summer Smoke was put into motion by my filmmaking class."

Citizen Kane: A Recreation

"Where Citizen Kane is abundant in conversation, I felt a modern version could very easily have less speaking, and more visual storytelling."

Creative Writing

Those I Stand Upon and Other Poems

"I would that solitude seek which/ Lies where none else may seek to find"

A Collection of Folk Tales

For an artistic response prompt, students were asked to write mock-ups of modernized short stories inspired by classic folk tales such as “The Stubborn Child” by The Brothers Grimm.

The Shape Shifter: A Wizard’s Exploration of Sacred Geometry

Vertax was a wizard, but by all accounts not an entirely sane one.

We Look Forward To Seeing You!

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Sci-Fi Ads

Students of Kyle Wiggins’ science fiction course were given the better part of a class period to create an advertisement for a potential future product that might exist in a distant dystopian/utopian world.

Death Poems

I will keep you on my wall And watch you burn Until hell freezes over.

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